John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation: "Were it grounded in reality, Oracle's claim that copyright law gives them proprietary control over any software that uses a particular functional API would be terrible for free software and programmers everywhere. It is an unethical and greedy interpretation created with the express purpose of subjugating as many computer users as possible, and is particularly bad in this context because it comes at a time when the sun has barely set on the free software community's celebration of Java as a language newly suitable for use in the free world. Fortunately, the claim is not yet reality, and we hope Judge Alsup will keep it that way." Couldn't agree more.

Yes, it is Google's own blog so what is in there must be taken with a bag of salt.

But seriously, you proved that you are mentally unfit for any rational conversation, picking up magic numbers and making voodoo interpretations - "ooh, $500K is less that $5M, therefore Google is Satan incarnate".

Yes, it is Google's own blog so what is in there must be taken with a bag of salt.

But seriously, you proved that you are mentally unfit for any rational conversation, picking up magic numbers and making voodoo interpretations - "ooh, $500K is less that $5M, therefore Google is Satan incarnate". "

I wasn't the one crying about lobbying being evil in every-other thread, that was Thom, You should be directing your issues about lobbying to him.

Yes, it is Google's own blog so what is in there must be taken with a bag of salt.

But seriously, you proved that you are mentally unfit for any rational conversation, picking up magic numbers and making voodoo interpretations - "ooh, $500K is less that $5M, therefore Google is Satan incarnate". "

I wasn't the one crying about lobbying being evil in every-other thread, that was Thom, You should be directing your issues about lobbying to him. [/q]

So, basically, you follow Thom around in every thread, and bring him up in every conceivable discussion and cherry picking what Thom writes in order to preserve this mental image you have of Thom.